Typescript account of the early history of the Government Press in Kenya and Tanganyika, from 1917, by Drury, the first Government Printer; with related correspondence, 1959-1960, and press cuttings, maps, printed material and photographs relating to East Africa, 1914-1963.
Papers of Norman C. Drury relating to the Government Press in East Africa
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1625
- Dates of Creation
- 1914-1963
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes, 2 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Norman C. Drury, first Government Printer in Kenya and Tanganyika.
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Note
Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Listed as no. 967 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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